This platform provides tools for understanding, minimizing, and reporting on the sustainability of buildings. It helps users analyze building performance, identify areas for improvement, and generate sustainability reports.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
The building industry faces increasing pressure to reduce its environmental impact, but assessing a building's climate footprint through its entire lifecycle is complex and time-consuming, often relying on manual data collection and calculations. This makes it difficult for architects, builders, and sustainability advisors to efficiently understand and minimize emissions during design and construction.
Solution
Real-Time LCA is a digital platform designed to streamline and automate the process of life cycle assessment (LCA) for buildings. The platform integrates with building information modeling (BIM) software, Excel, and manual data entry to automate LCA calculations, providing stakeholders with continuous insights into a building's environmental footprint across all construction phases. It features an extensive library of environmental product declarations (EPDs) on building materials, enabling users to compare materials and constructions, and uses AI to recommend alternative materials that can reduce CO2e emissions. Real-Time LCA also generates visual reports and dashboards to meet certification and legal requirements for climate documentation and financial reporting.
Target Audience
The platform targets architects, builders, sustainability advisors, contractors, and engineers who need to understand, improve, and document a building's climate footprint, as well as meet regulatory requirements and sustainability goals.
Features
- Automated LCA calculations using data from BIM, Excel, or manual input
- Extensive library of EPDs for building materials with comparison tools
- AI-driven recommendations for alternative materials to minimize emissions
- Visual reports and dashboards for sustainability data, certification, and financial reporting
- Integration with Speckle for seamless data transfer from design software
- REST API for connecting to Microsoft PowerBI and other tools
- Automapping feature to configure projects based on previous mappings
- Transport mapping to understand and document emissions from material transportation